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*active-finders* Variable

Summary

Controls how source finding operates.

Package

dspec

Initial Value

(:internal)

Description

The variable *active-finders* controls how the functions find-name-locations and find-dspec-locations operate. This in turn controls source the finding commands in the LispWorks IDE. You can switch between different sources of location information by setting this variable.

The legal values for the elements of *active-finders* are:

:internal
The internal database of definitions performed in this image.
:tags
Prompt for a tags file, when first used.
pathname
Either a tags file or a tags database.

A tags database is a fasl file generated by save-tags-database.

The order of this list determines the order that the results from the finders are combined in — you would usually want :internal to be the first item on this list, as it contains the up-to-date information about the state of the image. More than one pathname is allowed.

Notes

The value of *active-finders* is affected by editor commands such as Rotate Active Finders and Visit Tags File.

See also

discard-source-info
find-dspec-locations
find-name-locations
save-tags-database


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